Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-21

St John, reporls mat on March q
the Steamer tag.e Nas taxing sen ~
White Ba.. Ter Jess Wit three nun
rel lives hai been announced
Fred Kindle. employed in a tannery
at Cincinnati. walked into the hopper
OF the bdrk-mll, and before the ma
chinery could be stopped his less TO
the knees were ground to pulp.
The southern winds have rapidly
wasted away the ice IN the straits OF
Mackinac. and preparations ior q
speedy opening of navigation are
being made at ali the lake ports.
A mob Of twenty-five men forced
the Jail at Ripley, Mississippi on sun
day night. and shot dead a murderer
named Williamson, who had taken
change of venue from Union county.
At Hamilton. Ohio. on Friday, John
Uibner. Jr. assaulted Sheriff st. Clair,
who shot him in the breast, inillcting
a fatal wound. The senior Hibner
was defeated at the polls by Mr., St
Clair.
A large PARTY Of stockbreeders
called at the White House. on Friday,
and invited President Cleveland to
attend me National horse, cattle, and
hog convention TO be held next fall in
Chicago.
The anti-prohibitonists Of Texas
will hold a State convention at Dallas
on May 4. and John Hancock will state
his views. Three months later the
people Will vote on the temperance
amendment.
Alumni of Columbia college, repre-
senting every part of the country,
gathered at New York on Wednesday
to celebrate the one hHudredth ami
versarv of the establishment OF that
institution.
The whisky pool has purchased the
capacitv OF the International dfstllleTy
at Des Moines foG $4,000 per annum,
payable in mon1hly lnStallments. Mr..
Kidd will discharge l35 men, and close
up on May Is.
The Beecher memorial committee of
BROOKLYN has invited Rev. DR.. Joseph
Parker. Of London, to cross the At
lantic and deliver an Grafton in June,
probably on the birthday OF the de-
ceased pastor.
Mrs. NJ. j. Russell, formerly princi-
paI Of q female college in Toronto,
was arrested in Chicago for begging,
at the instance Of General Chetlan,
who claims to have been greatly an
noyed by her.
Eugene Semple. who was appointed
governor Of Washington territory. is
the son of former senator from Hi
nos. Samuel u. shannon, of Chey-
enne, was appointed secretary OF
Wyoming territory
Patrick McCarty was hanged Friday
% f.A ITnffnI uT
marshal, for the murder of the Ma
money brothers i'm Indian Territory
Schade Scarborough was executed At
Clayton, Alabama.
JAY Gould was in st. Louis Monday
with Sidney Dillon and \. i. Hopkins,
They inspected a tract oS land IN the
southern suburbs said to have been
purchased as Il site for the Iron Noun
tain machine-shOps.
The historical library Of Professor
Won Ranke, of Berlin. containing
80 600 volumes and 70 ,0GO pamphlets
has been purchased for syracuse uni
versity. and Will next summer be
brought across the Atlantic.
Mrs. John Herbert. of Joliet, has
for three months lain as if dead, only
once in that period opening her eyes
and speaking. Fluids are forced into
her mouth. She appears like a corpse.
and is reduced to skeleton.
Louis Rebisso, of Cincinnati, ma.
secured a horse rs a model for hI'
equestrian statue of General Grant
for Lincoln Park, Chicago. The am
mai came from Macon county, Ill
inois, and is sixteen hands high.
The commissioners appointed by
President Cleveland to investigate the
Pacific roads are Robert f. Pdttisou
ex-governor of Pennsylvania; f. Etrel
Anderson, an attorney OF New York
and David T. Littler, of Illinois.
Ii appears that the recent death o
General Knock, the Russian com
/ mander al Warsaw. WaS "a case O.
| suicide. brought about by grief at tn,
arrest OF his son Tor completely in th'
attempt to assaSs.uate the ear.
The report OF the Department OF
Agriculture for April regarding tn
condition OF Writer grain and the com
para;iye healthtu.uess of farm ami
I mails. compares tayurauiy with TIT
corresp 1udng reports of late years.
Live stock neiguts eastward iron
Chicago remain substantially the sun,
as betuIe tie Interstate commerce
law took effect IL Us SAID that the
rate on disuIery cattle from Peoria
has been advanced from SO to S24 per
car.
At Richmond, Indiana about day
4 light, Sunday, Mrs. Jonas Bennett
walked ont on the bridge over the
/ Whitewater river and leaped seventy
, five feet into the water. expiring
almost instantly. She was bride OF
I three days.
\ company has been incorporated a
Springfield, H., with q capital of 81.
/ 100000. % build a railway from the
Indiana state line to kmhakee, WI
I mmgton, Marseilles Mendoza anC
thence TO some point on the Missis
/ s,ppi river.
Another Request by the late Mis-.
4 Catherine Wolfe, OF New York, ha.
I .uSt been made known to the public
1 $4,000 to Grace church, on Broad
way. the income of which is to b,
/ applied to the maintenance and decor
alton of the edica
The Commissioner of Agriculture
has sent Ia the Governors of severa
I States a bill providing for corporation
+ with the bureau of animal industry il
stamping out p.eugo-pueuu onla. Tn,
act has already been PASSED ia Nir-
ginia and Michigan.